At midnight on July 31, New York State Park Police requested ECO assistance after locating drums of fish along the roadside of Bay Parkway in Jones Beach State Park and observing subjects fleeing the area. Park Police Officers detained two people and ECO Pabes arrived minutes later. Once on scene, the ECO combed through multiple 30- and 15-gallon drums of baitfish and found 10 undersized summer flounder (fluke), 19 bluefish, undersized blue claw crabs, and hundreds of pounds of a baitfish called spearing. The subjects also used a seine net larger than the legal size allowed for recreational harvest to capture the fish and did not have marine registries. ECO Pabes issued tickets for undersized fluke, excess bluefish, undersized blue claw crabs, use of an illegal seine net in Hempstead Bay, taking fish by commercial means without a license, and failure to carry a marine registry. All charges are returnable to Nassau First District Court. Officers also seized the fish, drums, and seine net.
